Dr. Mark Wheaton is a board-certified medical doctor who specializes in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, also called Physiatry. He has additional training in the field of Sports Medicine and the management of chronic pain. In his practice, Lakeside Sports and Pain Clinic, he utilizes prolotherapy, nutritional medicine, physical therapy, electrotherapy, massage therapy and other treatments with great results.

Dr Wheaton has performed prolotherapy extensively since 1996, specializing in the Hackett-Hemwall method. In 1999, he presented "Introduction to Prolotherapy" at the Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction Seminar in Sanibel, Florida. In 2001, he was a contributing author to the book Prolo Your Sports Injuries Away by Ross Hauser, MD. He has become one of the best-known prolotherapists in the mid-west, drawing patients from North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, and of course, Minnesota.

Dr Wheaton regularly delivers teaching lectures on prolotherapy to his colleagues, informational meetings to the public, and provides one-on-one training to qualified practitioners.

Born and raised in the Lake Minnetonka area in the western suburbs of Minneapolis, Dr. Wheaton graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in physiology in 1981. He completed his four-year medical school degree in 1987 at the George Washington University Medical School in Washington, D.C. His internship and residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation were completed at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in Southern California in 1992. He obtained additional training by completing a Sports Medicine fellowship at the Southern California Orthopaedic Institute in 1993. He has been the team physician for local high schools and professional rollerhockey, tennis and soccer teams.

Since 1997, Dr Wheaton volunteered his skills at the charity medical clinic, Beulah Land Natural Medicine Clinic, held quarterly in Thebes, IL, in addition to various athletic events in the Minneapolis area. His Christian faith is his source of strength and guidance. He enjoys tennis, golf, ice hockey, swimming, sailing, biking, cross country skiing, big band music / swing dancing and time spent with family and friends. He and his wife, Gina, and their two sons, reside in the Lake Minnetonka area.